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Dead Sweet

Katrin Juliusdottir; Quentin Bates [translator] · 2023 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, Orenda Books, 2023. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first English translation of this thrilling crime novel from Juliusdottir, signed by the author. First English translation. Signed by the author to the title page. Limited to one thousand five hundred numbered copies…

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and, Seymour, an Introduction

J. D. Salinger · 1959 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

Boston; Toronto, Little, Brown and Company, 1959. First edition. Cloth. A superb copy of these two popular novellas by J. D. Salinger, the third state of the first edition. The first edition, first printing, third state, with the dedication leaf tipped-in after the title page.In…

The Unfortunates

B. S. Johnson · 1969 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.06 | $918.20 | ¥146,578)

London, Panther Books LTD; Secker & Warburg LTD, 1969. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this fascinating unique experimental novel by B. S. Johnson, issued in twenty-seven sections compiled here in a random order. The first edition of this work.Signed by the author …

Summer Drinks and Winter Cordials

Mrs. C. F. Leyel; Hilda Leyel · 1925 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,816)

London, George Routledge and Sons, Ltd, [1925]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce volume of drink recipes for both summer and winter by Hilda Leyel, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition.A scarce work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper, designe…

The Song Before It Is Sung; Return to Treasure Island; Imaginary Friend; Correspondents; High Vaultage

Justin Cartwright; Andrew Motion; Stephen Chbosky; Tim Murphy; Chris Sugden; Jen Sugden · 2007 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.08 | ¥50,617)

London, Bloomsbury; Jonathan Cape; Orion; Picador; Gollancz, 2007-2024. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition set spanning suspense, historical fiction, and speculative thrillers, signed by their respective authors, complete with the original unclipped dust wrappers. In t…

Luster

Raven Leilani · 2020 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

London, Picador, 2020 . First edition. Cloth. A fine example of the first UK edition of Raven Leilani's award winning debut novel, signed by the author to the title page. A signed first UK edition, first impression of this work, flat signed by the author.In the publisher&ap…

Farewell, Fond Dreams; Girl with Red Hair

Giles Gordon · 1974 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,963)

London, Hutchinson, 1974-1975. First edition. Cloth. Signed presentation copies of two works of literature from Giles Gordon, inscribed to celebrated publisher Carmen Callil. Two first editions, first impressions, in the publisher's original unclipped dust wrappers.With the…

Delicious Food for India: A Hostess&Apos;S Notebook

Marie Edwards · 1935 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

Calcutta; London, Thacker, Spink & Co; Thacker & Co Ltd, 1935. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of Marie Edward's guide to hosting in colonial India, aiming to combine British culinary traditions with local Indian ingredients. The first edition of this ve…

The Attache at Peking

A. B. Freeman-Mitford [Bernard Freeman-Mitford] · 1900 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.19 | $786.08 | ¥125,487)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1900. First edition. Cloth. A first edition signed copy of A. B. Freeman-Mitford's scarce account of his time in China, in the original very scarce publisher's cloth. Inscribed by the author to his son. The first edition of this scarc…

Life of Oliver Cromwell

M. Francois Guizot · 1868 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.84 | $151.93 | ¥24,254)

London, Richard Bentley, 1868 . Leather. A charmingly illustrated and handsomely bound example of François Guizot's informative biography of Oliver Cromwell. A 'new edition' of François Guizot's biography of Oliver Cromwell.A detailed biography of Oliver Cr…

Aesop&Apos;S Fables

Aesop · 0 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.20 | ¥36,908)

Germany, Not Stated, c1900. Cloth. A smartly bound copy of this very scarce collection of fables attributed to Aesop. Very scarce work. Designed in England, printed in Germany. Illustrated throughout with four chromolithograph pages. A collection of the fables attributed to Aeso…

Glimpses of Our Ancestors in Sussex

Charles Fleet · 1878 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

Brighton; Lewes, W. J. Smith; Francombe & Co, 1878-83. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the first and second series of Charles Fleet's exploration of Sussex, both volumes signed by the author. The first edition.Both volumes are signed by the author. The first seri…

Songs Unsung

Lewis Morris · 1884 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1884. Leather. A wonderful example of the fourth edition of Morris's poetry collection, in a tree calf signed binding by Riviere. First published in 1883, this is the fourth edition of Lewis Morris's poetry collection.In a tree calf sig…

A Collection of Natural History Studies from T & a D Poyser

Nigel Dunstone; Nigel Reeve; Ernest Neal; Chris Cheeseman; Richard A. Griffiths; Mark Young · 1993 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

London, T & A D Poyser, 1993-1997. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of five first edition natural history studies from T & A D Poyser, with illustrations throughout. Five volumes. First edition. Newts and Salamanders of Europe is signed by the illustrator Bas Teunis to t…

The Queen&Apos;S Matrimonial Ladder; the Political House That Jack Built; a Parody on the Political House That Jack Built

William Hone; M. Adams · 1819 · Rooke Books

£155.00 (€185.79 | $204.78 | ¥32,690)

London, William Hone; Chapple, 1819-1820 . Paperback. Two very scarce political parodies by William Hone, illustrated by George Cruikshank, present alongside a very scarce response to Hone's satire on the Peterloo Massacre. The first of these works is the 1820 sixth edition…

The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa

David Livingstone; Horace Waller · 1880 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

London, John Murray, 1880 . First edition. Leather. The collected final journals of explorer David Livingstone, edited by his close friend, and illustrated with plates and folding maps. The tenth thousand of this work.Complete in two volumes, bound in one. In a full calf signed …

Armoured Guardsmen: A War Diary June 1944 - April 1945

Robert Boscawen · 2001 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

Yorkshire, Leo Cooper, 2001. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated war diary from British Conservative politician, Robert Thomas Boscawen, signed by the author with a letter. First edition. Signed by the author to the title page. With a handwritten lett…

The Rockingdown Mystery

Enid Blyton · 1950 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,053)

London, Collins, 1950. Cloth. A signed adventure novel for children by Enid Blyton, complete with illustrations by Gilbert Dunlop. Signed by the author to the half-title.The third impression, published one year after the first.'The Rockingdown Mystery' is the first boo…

Annals of Scottish Printing

Robert Dickson; John Philip Edmond · 1890 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

Cambridge, Macmillan & Bowes, 1890 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this limited edition study of historical Scottish printing, signed by the co-author and editor John Philip Edmond. A limited edition work, with this copy being number 344 of 500 copies printed on sma…

Ordeal by Battle

Frederick Scott Oliver · 1915 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1915. Leather. Frederick Scott Oliver's political essay about the beginning of the First World War, in a handsome half morocco signed binding by Hatchards. The second edition of this work, published in the same year as the first edition.In a half m…